LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians in Diaspora to develop full interest in what happens in Nigeria, arguing that the task of developing Nigeria is for all Nigerians. Obi made the call while recently speaking at the Inaugural Investment Conference with the theme of “Investing…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Cameroonian troops crossed into neighboring Nigeria in pursuit of separatist rebels, a Nigerian state defense spokesman and a former community leader said on Wednesday. Cameroon has been fighting Anglophone separatists who have taken up arms over the past year in an attempt to create a nation which they call Ambazonia. The…
LAGOS JANUARY 31st (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigeria plans to start building a $5.8 billion hydro-power plant in the eastern Mambila region this year, after it agrees on loan terms with China’s Export-Import Bank. “We hope to break ground this year if we can conclude the financing,” Power, Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola said in a Jan….
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon has jailed 47 secessionists including Ayuk Tabe Julius, head of a group from Cameroon’s Angolphone region pushing for a breakaway from French-dominant Cameroon. Cameroon government spokesperson Issa Tchiroma Bakari says Ayuk Tabe Julius and his nine cabinet members were arrested in Nigeria on January 5. They were brought to Yaounde and…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The head of the U.S. Consulate in Nigeria’s capital says U.S. support for Nigeria’s economy will continue given the African country’s demographics. United States Consul General F. John Bray spoke with The Associated Press on Monday after participating in the closing gong ceremony at the Nigeria Stock Exchange House in Lagos. Bray…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Canadian Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Mr. Lajos Arendas, on Wednesday said that it was imperative for Nigerians to know of the non-existence of any Canadian Visa Lottery. Arendas said in Lagos that his government had never been involved in any form of Visa Lottery programme, adding that it was currently…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have begun to sell the 13-page statement addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari by a former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, in traffic in major cities around the country. PREMIUM TIMES reporter observed on Wednesday that in Lagos, copies of the ‘special statement’ printed and bound were being displayed and sold in traffic…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unrest in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions intensified with arson attacks on schools and a city market as the government vowed to quash a secessionist movement whose leaders are in detention in Nigeria, saying it won’t negotiate with terrorists. At least three schools were torched this week in the Northwest region, one of two…
